turning point presents facing uncertain times with  dr. David Jeremiah in 2004 it was the Indian Ocean   tsunami 2005 we encountered Hurricane Katrina  who can forget the earthquake in Haiti 2010 more   recently and more locally we’ve witnessed the  devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017   the California wildfires in 2018 in the tornado  in Nashville just a few weeks ago pandemics and   natural calamities rage on our world costing  us countless billions of dollars and more   significantly hundreds of thousands of lives  these things raise many questions questions

about the nature of our security about our fear  of the uncontrollable and especially about the   character of God these questions need answers  but I’d like to open the discussion by telling   you about a biblical character who experienced  two natural disasters in the space of 24 hours   his name of course was a job the first few verses  of his book tell us everything we need to know   about Jobe he was a man of faith job 1:1 says the  job was blameless and upright and one who feared   God and shunned evil job was also a man who had a  great fortune the third verse of the first chapter

says also his possessions were seven thousand  sheep three thousand camels five hundred yoke   of oxen five hundred female donkeys and a very  large household so that this man was the greatest   of all the people of the East you see back in the  days of job wealth was calculated in terms of land   than animals and servants job had all three in  abundance he was the wealthiest man of his day   he was also a family man the first chapter tells  us that he raised sons and daughters who were   close-knit they have great birthday feasts for  each other after which their father would make

a burnt offering to God on their behalf faith and  family came together for job finally Joe had many   friends some are famous for their role in this  book but there were no doubt many others as well   one day as job was going through his daily routine  a messenger approached him with disturbing news   Sabian Raiders have descended upon his estate  hijacked his cattle killed his servants this   messenger alone has survived to tell the story yet  even before he has finished his account before job   has taken it all in the door opens and another  messenger stands there and he is pale his eyes

wide open as he whispers the fire of God fell from  heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants a   third messenger brings news that the Chaldeans  have raided and stolen the camels killing the   servants and yes leaving one distressed messenger  to bring a report finally while Jove is trying to   make sense out of all of this and form some kind  of recovery plan the last shoe drops while he was   still speaking says Joe one eighteen and nineteen  another also came and said your sons and daughters